We're gonna get Test server pretty soon.

KaskaMatej · 2013-03-29, 03:14 PM

A conclusion I got from one of the SOE's forum developers posting a test thread, citing "A test post!" under Planetside 2 Test Server: Announcements.

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/i...-thread.110371

Yey!

ChipMHazard · 2013-03-29, 03:19 PM

Oh that looks very promising

CrimsonTemplar · 2013-03-29, 05:40 PM

Ah bollocks. Looks like it's been taken down. Ah well I'll take your word for it.

Phantomdestiny · 2013-03-29, 06:11 PM

bring it on . we need this now

KaskaMatej · 2013-03-29, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by CrimsonTemplar

Ah bollocks. Looks like it's been taken down. Ah well I'll take your word for it.

If reading EA forums taught me something, it's taking screenshots of important posts.

ChipMHazard · 2013-03-29, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by KaskaMatej

If reading EA forums taught me something, it's taking screenshots of important posts.

Good man!

CrimsonTemplar · 2013-03-30, 07:36 AM

Originally Posted by KaskaMatej

If reading EA forums taught me something, it's taking screenshots of important posts.

I tip my hat to you kind one.

Lucecarentes · 2013-03-29, 06:34 PM

I hope they will allow you to have 4 characters per account when the test server comes out, since i have 1 main character (My VS) and two secondery ones i occasionaly play(a TR and NC) and i don't wanna deleate my TR and NC since i finally got some decent gear on em.

basti · 2013-03-30, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by Lucecarentes

I hope they will allow you to have 4 characters per account when the test server comes out, since i have 1 main character (My VS) and two secondery ones i occasionaly play(a TR and NC) and i don't wanna deleate my TR and NC since i finally got some decent gear on em.

test server will require a new install of the game and will most likely use a different database, means you have 3 new free slots

Silent Thunder · 2013-03-30, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by basti

test server will require a new install of the game and will most likely use a different database, means you have 3 new free slots

Is this conjecture or is this a fact? If so I hope they let us copy our install directory as a base instead of redownloading it.

Pella · 2013-03-31, 03:33 AM

Originally Posted by Silent Thunder

Is this conjecture or is this a fact? If so I hope they let us copy our install directory as a base instead of redownloading it.

More likely.

Basti likes to assume.

Climhazzard · 2013-03-31, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by Pella

More likely.

Basti likes to assume.

The likelihood of requiring a separate install is quite high. Many of the changes they'll want to test will require modifications to the game client. They can't make those changes to the live client without creating some potentially serious issues.

It's how WoW handles their Public Test Realm. I don't know if the installer you download simply copies and patches your live install, though. I never participated in testing back when I played.

basti · 2013-04-01, 07:10 AM

Originally Posted by Silent Thunder

Is this conjecture or is this a fact? If so I hope they let us copy our install directory as a base instead of redownloading it.

Oh, you certainly can do that. Copy the Client, put the Test server launcher over it, patch to test server client. How much you save is up in the air tho, nobody knows till it actually happens.
This works because SOEs launcher checks all the files if you do a full scan, and patches whatever actually needs patching.

The above is a fact.
But as for characters, dunno really. I would assume SOE puts the whole thing on a different database, as they and every other MMO does with test servers. Everything else would just be stupid, because there is no way to access live servers via test server client, and test server via live server client. So showing you characters you cant access is rather foolish.

Bunk · 2013-03-30, 08:02 AM

Test server, please ignore.

Hamma · 2013-03-30, 11:40 AM

Can't wait for the test server.